The Promenade is in the 12 arrondissement and surrounded by Baron Haussmann architecture(some of which you can see right in the windows). Don't ask me why I've never been up here but I'll be back. It feels like you're out in the country.

I had high hopes of doing the same but my focus is easily distracted. Still it was a wonderful day and I've promised myself I'll go back to marché d'Aligre to draw and not eat. More information on the Paris sketch tour here. Thank you Susan and Karen for letting me tag along!!

Carol, what a lovely recounting of our day. Thank you. It's such fun to look back through your lens. If I weren't already there, I'd surely want to go!! Encore merci from all of us, for the pleasure of your company!

What a great post for me to read and see.The eater glass tickled me pink:-) I have never seen that..Is everyone excellent?I know of sketch groups too far for me anyways but you have to be excellent...so apart from far..I know my limitations.I would have loved to do this with Nancy..When I did take that class years ago and so loved the group..she taught us that contouring..brought back memories..love the idea of adding paper ..stubs etc..Your work is you..:-) And that blanquette looks well quite Nigel/Nigellay..delicious.

So convivial and such talents. I really love all the different rouges you used in your strawberries. O the lunches look good there, I am always squirming, I can never finish my portion , except that coffee to the last drop and not a crumb of macaroon to be seen, no matter what flavor.xx

It looks like a fabulous way to spend a gorgeous Spring day. I wish we had a raised walkway here in Providence - it's such a great idea!I love your photos and sketches and watercolors, so bright & full of Spring.Hemingway used to cut through the Luxembourg gardens on his way home from the Seine - he loved to linger there.

what a wonderful art lesson - blind contour has always been a favorite activity for getting students to "see" what they are actually drawing rather than drawing what they think they see. : ) Couldn't ask for a better studio than the streets of Paris. I loved today's posting; well, of course they're always wonderful. Happy Thursday to you.

I walked the planted walkway with my husband in a rainstorm (we were the only people on the path) but we couldn't not walk it just because of a little water! It is beautiful and now we need to return for a walk in the sunshine with all the flowers. What a great day you had!

reading about your day sketching with Susan Abbott and Karen Kane, I wondered if you know of any drawing/sketching classes that would be the same sort of thing but that could be taken for one day at a time. If you know of anything like that, would you please let me know - I have a dear friend who would love that, and we are talking about returning to Paris in the next year.

Your post today is (once again!) a breath of fresh airfor the spirits.Your colors are as gorgeous as the Luxembourg Gardens! Blanquette has me drooling!(it used to be my specialty) What a fantastic day!THANK YOU!PS Is that the Place du Jardin with the Hausmann architecture? Looks identical to the background on Caillebotte's Rainy Day!

Close NATALIA R but noThere are many corners like that in Paris.Thank you Baron HaussmannThere is no dome in the painting..http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/artwork/paintings-by-gustave-caillebotte2.htm

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♥carol gillott♥

l'Ile Saint Louis, Paris, Ile de France, France

Hi I'm Carol Gillott,
My Mom taught me watercolors at 5. I'm still at it, now tripping over cobblestones, living in a 6th-floor garret on l'Ile Saint-Louis, Paris. Read Parisbreakfast with a hot chocolate and croissant.
I paint Paris breakfasts.